Stray Thoughts for GirlsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1910 - 201 páginas |
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... strength , and we probably feel her strong - minded , and rather a " managing woman " -and , as a rule , these are not loved . I feel that she wants some sorrow to humanize her - she would hardly be sorry for less prosperous , less ...
... strength , and we probably feel her strong - minded , and rather a " managing woman " -and , as a rule , these are not loved . I feel that she wants some sorrow to humanize her - she would hardly be sorry for less prosperous , less ...
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... be on her guard against hardness : it is her temptation , naturally , as it was that of the Elder Brother , but love and humility can make even strength lovable . And for those who are in no danger of being THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN . II.
... be on her guard against hardness : it is her temptation , naturally , as it was that of the Elder Brother , but love and humility can make even strength lovable . And for those who are in no danger of being THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN . II.
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... strength of the Virtuous Woman . The strength of her modern descendant lies abroad : she is strong and admirable , she does splendid work , but there is always a tinge of excitement to help one through outside work . Things done among ...
... strength of the Virtuous Woman . The strength of her modern descendant lies abroad : she is strong and admirable , she does splendid work , but there is always a tinge of excitement to help one through outside work . Things done among ...
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... strength , but if she is of the right sort , spirit carries her through , just as you often find uneducated people , unnerved by pain or fright , crying and pitying themselves : a real lady has nerve for it all , though she is ten times ...
... strength , but if she is of the right sort , spirit carries her through , just as you often find uneducated people , unnerved by pain or fright , crying and pitying themselves : a real lady has nerve for it all , though she is ten times ...
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... strength that God gave you to use for Him . Instead of the satis- factory scourge and hair shirt of rising betimes next morning , try the more commonplace penance of going to bed in proper time the next night , without any dawdling . So ...
... strength that God gave you to use for Him . Instead of the satis- factory scourge and hair shirt of rising betimes next morning , try the more commonplace penance of going to bed in proper time the next night , without any dawdling . So ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amuse Aunt Rachel better brothers Church comfort commonplace conscience dress enjoy Epictetus esprit de corps Euclid extremes meet fault feel friends friendship George Eliot girl give God's gossip hand happiness hard harm heart holidays home duties husband ideal idle interests Italy keep kind lady Lady Jane Grey leaving school lessons live look Marcus Aurelius married matter Matthew Arnold means mind mother Mysteries of Udolpho nature never nice noble nobler noblesse oblige novels passionate book perhaps person pity pleasant pleasure poetry prayers Relief of Man's remember resolution Roger Ascham rule self-denial self-indulgence selfish sense sensible servants side silly sometimes sort soul speak spend Sunday sure talk teach tell things thought true uncon unselfish Urith Virtuous Woman wish women words wrong young yourselves
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Página 170 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Página 15 - But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by household gods, before whose faces none may come but those whom they can receive with love,— so far as it is this, and roof and fire are types only of a nobler shade and light, shade as of the rock in a weary land, and light as of the Pharos in the stormy sea,— so far it vindicates the name and fulfils the praise of home.
Página 24 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Página 197 - I see a glimpse of it!" cries he elsewhere: "there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness: he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the Godlike only has he Strength and Freedom?
Página 165 - He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
Página 164 - I suppose you mean the greatest love, and the greatest usefulness, and the most open communication, and the noblest sufferings, and the most exemplary faithfulness, and the severest truth, and the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds, of which brave men and -women are capable.
Página 28 - Of some sweet Future, which we after find Bitter to taste, or bind that in with fears, And water it beforehand with our tears — Vain tears for that which never may arrive ; Meanwhile the joy whereby we ought to live Neglected or unheeded disappears. Wiser it were to welcome and make ours Whate'er of good, though small, the Present brings — Kind greetings, sunshine, song of birds, and flowers, With a child's pure delight in little things; And of the griefs unborn to rest secure, Knowing that mercy...